International law generally holds that a people with a legal right to self-determination are entitled to wage wars of national liberation. While Western states tend to view these wars as civil wars, Third World See more

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is a national liberation movement, meaning that it holds official recognition of its legal status as such. Other national liberation movements in the OAU at that time included the African National Congress See more

• Boleslaw Adam Boczek (2005). International law: a dictionary. Scarecrow Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-8108-5078-1.
• Malanczuk, Peter Autor (1997). Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-11120-1 See more

Wars of national liberation are usually fought using guerrilla warfare. The main purpose of these tactics is to increase the cost of the anti … See more

Decolonization period
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) can be considered to be one of the first wars of national liberation. … See more

Conflicts which have been described as national liberation struggles:
• The Swedish War of Liberation (1521–23).
• The See more

• 14 Points especially V & XII
• African independence movements
• American War of Independence
• Clausewitz's On War
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